Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-11

for the highest market price, which is g.
advance of several dollars per heat
above what they offered them for in tn
spring of 1886, before the effect CT tn
drouth was telt.
Since my return 1 have prospectet
over your whole county. Never have
seen such hay crop OF native grass
never such natural p6sturage, never sucl
an abundance of fail forage crops. Lane
that revives and produces such crop
so rapidly after such drouth have NJ
equal.
Could the farmers of the drouti-afi ctet
regions of the north and northwest be
held your beautiful country and se'
what l have seen within the last ffteel
days, they would flock to Coleman by th'
thousands, and only regret that they die
not learn of this land of promise sooner
While the three months drouth OF then
sections has driven them to force thCi,
stock upon the market and dispose CT i
at ruinous prices, you are in condition *
refuse to sell and hold your stock oyel
for better prices than you have been sell
! ing for.
Without seeing It, no man can reelizC
! this county's worth I read in the pa
pers that the drouth was broken; 6 frienC
in Winchester. Tennessee, showed me c
copy of the Voice and after reading it
remarked: "That fellow is taking les.
CONS from the newspapers of Southern
California; he cannot fool NE, have beer
there" Subsequently, at Palmetto,
saw letters from residents Of Coleman
county TO their friends. advising them tc
come. Surely, thought, if these peopl!
are fiiends. they are not deCeiving thei
kindred: will go and see the country
again.
I am here and tender apology for ny
jacoSe remark | made upon your article
and say that neither you or those persons
writing to their friends, were half as en-
tnusiastic IS in truth you might have
been. And / assure you that If the ct
fractions Of Coleman county were gener-
ely known, year would not psss before
your waste places were ell filed by we'll
to do and intelligent farmers who are DIS
Satisfied in the old southern stateE.
Upon the land which l bought the sac
ond crop of hay has been moved this fall.
The rain did not set In until the Isl OF
August and the first crop was moved be-
tore the 10th Of September. She second
crop is now being hauled to town where
it commands better price than millet or
any OF the cultivated hay upon the mar
ket.
was offered this same land eighteen
months ago at So % per acre. paid
So % for it last week, and was glad to get
it at that. l..
One would naturally suppose that the
effact of the drouth would bet0 bring
lands down, but the lands OF Colsmsn
county have gone up, and ON examination
of the assessment rolls OF the county 4
find that they have increased IN assessed
value more than $4,000 in one year,
Notwithstanding the 6routh. This is sore
remarkable since there is no speculative
boom and the lands are not in the4asnds
Of speculStors. . 80
1 have no othersebject in writing this
letter than to give information to en-
quirers and to those, who, like myself,
are not conttntea with their lot in the
older states.@ 1 aew own $40 scTes Of
land in Coleman county, none of it is for
sale; on the contrary, l am negotiating
for the adjoining section. Therefore, it
will be ueaerstood that [ have no axe to
grind, and No particular bereft to be de-
rived blythe settling up of the country.
The codnty Contains nearly 500, 900 acres.
Five hundred thousand Of this is first
class agricultural land, and there are per-
hgps 40,O00iR cultivation.
,rhe Remainder is nearly all for sale. A
lalge BGdy CT it is inclosed in pastures,
out the stockmen are contracting their
heFis, substituting highly improved and
blooded stock for the native longhorns.
The increasing value Of the land has driv-
en- them to substitute quality for qusnti-
ty and to offer their surplus acres for
sale. La some instances whole pastures
have been surveyed into small tracts to
suit purchasers, thereby opening up the
finest body of prairie land in the world to
settlement.
The population of this vast territory is
but about 1000, and there are twenty
seven public free schools equal to any
rural free schools in the United States.
The town of Coleman is the terminus
OF the northwestern branch Of the great
Santa Fee system of railroads. It has 8
good trade, and farming implements and
machinery, as well as all articles Of mer-
chandIse, can be bought here IS reason
able as in Louisville, Ky.
| have priced nearly everything there
and here, and there is no difference that
can see.
The population Of the town is about
1900, and there has not been death or
eerious case Of Illness amongst them fer
nearly year.
Society throughout the country, is ss
good as it is anywhere and there is re-
mafkable absence of every species of
crime.
Two more railroads are projected, one
coming from Fort Worth has already
been surveyed TO the town. The other
crosses the state from north to south
opening up direct route to Chicago for
the annual transportation Of 100000 head
Of cattle for the northern markets.
Most Of the guests l meet at the hotels
ere drummers or health seekers. There
are but few prospectors, for the country
is not advertised. Speaking Of hotels, l
must not fail to mention that the Flor
erce House is my favorite of ell the hotels
between Louisville and San Diego and be-
tween San Francisco and Atlanta, includ-
ing them all.
In conclusion I will say: This is the
poor mans country. Not for paupers or
tramps, but for those who are able TO buy
and improve homestead at moderate tig-
ures; and who sre willing to labor as the
farmers of Old Kentucky do. r. l..
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